Re: [PATCH 01/20] [v2] x86, intel: Introduce macros for Intel family numbers

[Ingo Molnar]

* Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Changes from v1:
>  * added acks from a few folks
>  * Took the redundant "MODEL_" out of the macro names (Suggested
>    by Borislav Petkov and acked by others)
> 
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If you are cc'd on this code, please check _your_ code vs. the
> model list in "intel-family.h".  Please make sure you have all
> the models listed that you intend to.
> 
> Also, rather than trickling these in via all the various
> maintainers, should these just get pulled in to the x86 tree in
> one go?
> 
> Problem:
> 
> We have a boatload of open-coded family-6 model numbers.  Half of
> them have these model numbers in hex and the other half in
> decimal.  This makes grepping for them tons of fun, if you were
> to try.
> 
> Solution:
> 
> Consolidate all the magic numbers.  Put all the definitions in
> one header.
> 
> The names here are closely derived from the comments describing
> the models from arch/x86/events/intel/core.c.  We could easily
> make them shorter by doing things like s/SANDYBRIDGE/SNB/, but
> they seemed fine even with the longer versions to me.
> 
> Do not take any of these names too literally, like "DESKTOP"
> or "MOBILE".  These are all colloquial names and not precise
> descriptions of everywhere a given model will show up.
> 
> These have all been compile-tested.  I also made a stab at
> dumping .o files and looking for unexpected deltas when I was
> just replacing magic numbers with equivalent macros.

So I've picked up this series and restructured it: I've created a single patch 
that creates intel-family.h and have put it into x86/urgent. This eliminated 
dependencies and allowed some of the patches to be queued in their natural trees, 
in particular the 7 perf patches.

Thanks,

	Ingo